People Quotes by Honoré de Balzac

And he, like many jaded people, had few pleasures left in life save good food and drink.

— Honore de Balzac

It's catastrophies which turn wise and strong people into philosophers.

— Honore de Balzac

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

— Honore de Balzac

People who climb from one rung of society to another can never do anything simply.

— Honore de Balzac

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

— Honore de Balzac

Heaven should be kind to stupid people, for no one else can be consistently.

— Honore de Balzac

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

— Honore de Balzac

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

— Honore de Balzac

Kindness steers no easy course. Attributing it to character, we seldom recognize the secret efforts of a noble heart, whereas we reward…

— Honore de Balzac

Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones.

— Honore de Balzac

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss…

— Honore de Balzac

When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in…

— Honore de Balzac

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs…

— Honore de Balzac

Grief ennobles the commonest people because it has its own essential grandeur. To shine with the luster of grief, a person need…

— Honore de Balzac

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that…

— Honore de Balzac

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the…

— Honore de Balzac

The monotony of provincial life attracts the attention of people to the kitchen. You do not dine as luxuriously in the provinces…

— Honore de Balzac

Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it…

— Honore de Balzac

In Paris, when certain people see you ready to set your foot in the stirrup, some pull your coat-tails, others loosen the…

— Honore de Balzac

What moralist can deny that well-bred and vicious people are much more agreeable than their virtuous counterparts? Having crimes to atone for,…

— Honore de Balzac

In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The…

— Honore de Balzac

“To that point, he had always found the vicomtesse overflowing with friendly politeness, that sweet-flowing grace conferred by an aristocratic education, and…

— Honoré de Balzac

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

— Honore de Balzac

Like most young people, these two attributed to the world their own intelligence and virtues. Youth who knows no failure has no…

— Honore de Balzac